548 Report on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Derhy. 
Table IV. — Giving tlic Amount of Phizes offered iu Five Classes 
at the Derby Show iu lSi3, and the Number of Entries. 
Class. 
Description of IIoi se. 
Amount of Prizes. 
Numbf-r of 
Entries. 
J. 
iTo the owner of the best Cart"! 
I iStullion, -l years old and iipwurdsj 
' To the owner of the 2ud best ditto 
Thirty Sovereigns 
Twenty Sovereigns 
1 „ 
1 " 
II. 
JTo the owner of ihc liest 2-year-old I 
\ ditto / 
Fifteen Sovereigns 
o 
%} 
III. 
I r Ttm nwin ftv f\T tliii lioot' I'oi'f iV'Toi'nl 
( To the owner of the 2nd best ditto 
Twenty Sovereigns 
Ton Sovereigns 
IV. 
/To the owner of the best 2-year-old\ 
I Filly 1 
Ten Sovereigns 
2 
V. 
/To the owner of tlie best Thorough-"! 
( bred Stallion .. .. .. .,/ 
Thirty Sovereign .. 
8 
£1.35 
3i 
ten years, if the Kilburn Show is excluded from the calcula- 
tion. Inquiries as to the reason led to the conclusion that 
many were kept at home by a bad influenza epidemic, or epi- 
hippic, more properly, which was very prevalent in all parts of 
the country, or from the fear of catching the disorder. But the 
Royal Shows, as a rule, never have had large exhibitions of 
horses, and one reason is, that a week is a long time for valuable 
horses to be exposed to risks from the changes and chances of 
weather in temporary wooden boxes ; also that the charges made 
by railway companies for conveying them is almost prohibitory 
to those who do not make a constant practice of exhibiting 
horses for sale or for purposes of advertisement. Tliis applies 
in degree to all kinds of stock, and greatly militates against the 
success of the Society's Shows. The Council have endeavoured 
to persuade railway companies to make special rates and to give 
special facilities, but they have not been able to induce them to 
alter a policy which appears shortsighted, to say the very least 
of it. 
The appended Table (V.) shows that 28 counties were repre- 
sented at Derby in the classes for horses, and that 10 came 
from Scotland, and 2 from Wales : — 
